Michael Dessen
Michael Dessen (* 1967 in Madison (Wisconsin) ) is an American musician ( slide trombone , electronics), composer and university professor .
Live and act
His, who grew up as the son of a university professor in Chapel Hill (North Carolina) , received a classical music education and played as a student in various chamber ensembles and symphony orchestras. He earned a bachelor's degree in trombonist from the Eastman School of Music ; He completed a Masters in jazz composition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (studied with Yusef Lateef , with whom he made his first recordings in 1995) and a Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego in the Critical Studies and Experimental Practices program with George Lewis and Anthony Davis . Since then he has worked in various ensembles (including with Mark Dresser and from 1999 to 2011 in the improvisation collective Cosmologic , with Jason Robinson , Scott Walton and Nathan Hubbard ) and is also involved in digital networking. Recordings under his own name were made for the Clean Feed , Cuneiform and Circumvention labels . In the field of jazz he was involved in 16 recording sessions between 1995 and 2012.
Dessen wrote Resonating Abstractions on a commission from Chamber Music America , which he presented on a US tour at the end of 2012. Since 2006 he has been an Associate Professor of Integrated Composition, Improvisation and Technique at the University of California ; There he co-founded the Music Emphasis in Integrated Composition, Improvisation and Technology (ICIT) master’s program , which combines a composition with a jazz program. He wrote articles for the anthology The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation and Communities in Dialogue (Wesleyan University Press), for the online journals Critical Studies in Improvisation / Etudes Critique en Improvisation and Musicworks , and the foreword for Yusef Lateef's Songbook . In his contributions, he particularly addresses the African-American traditions of the late 20th century in the field of experimental music.
Discographic notes
- Cosmologic: Staring at the Sun (Circumvention, 2000)
- Cosmologic: Syntaxis (Circumvention, 2002)
- Cosmologic: III (Circumvention, 2004)
- Lineal (Circumvention, 2006), with Vijay Iyer , Mark Dresser, Susie Ibarra
- Cosmologic: Eyes in the Back of My Head (Cuneiform, 2006)
- Forget the Pixel (Clean Feed, 2011), with Christopher Tordini and Dan Weiss
- Michael Dessen Trio: Somewhere in the Upstream ( Clean Feed Records , 2018)
Web links
- Web presence
- portrait
- Michael Dessen at Allmusic (English)
- Michael Meanwhile at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | His, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madison (Wisconsin) |